The AZC's internal "Information and Public
Relations Department" reports.

"For obvious reasons our activities in this area cannot be minutely
described, nor can we give names, dates, or places. We are, however,
fighting hostile propagandists as one of our major activities throughout
the year by: a. a careful check of newspapers, bulletins and
confidential sources of our own, who can give us reliable information on
the movements or itineraries of these propagandists. b. alerting our
community contacts...c. requesting that all known meetings be
monitored....furnishing speakers and arranging for them to address the
forums..."

Documents

Between 1962-1963 the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee subpoenaed internal reports of the American
Zionist Council during its investigation into the
activities of registered agents of foreign principals. They
discovered that more than $5 million in tax exempt (and possibly overseas donations) had
been laundered through the Jewish Agency's American Section into the
American Zionist Council. The Jewish
Agency functioned as a quasi-branch of the Israeli government,
received Israeli government funding, and was able to review legislation
before it went to the Knesset under its Covenant Agreement.

This violated IRS regulations on the use
of tax exempt charitable funds and the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration
Act.

The following reports detail how
the American Zionist Council used the funding in a
sophisticated campaign to cajole and intimidate news media, subvert
open debate about Israel and undermine reporting about key issues of
the day such as Israel's Dimona nuclear weapons facility, operation Susannah terror attacks on the United States, and the return of
Arab refugees to their homes. The AZC tracked and targeted professors and
engaged in covert operations obliquely referred to
in the following internal reports.

After the Justice Department
ordered the American Zionist Council to register as a foreign
agent in late 1962, it transferred responsibilities to the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee,
which refuses to register as a foreign agent of the Israeli government.

On May 19, 1970, the Dow Jones
Observer reported, "In 1963 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
investigated the Jewish Agency and uncovered a 'conduit' operation run
by an organization called the American Zionist Council. Over an
eight-year period, this council received more than $5,000,000 from the
Jewish Agency to create favorable public opinion in this country for
Israeli government policies. The Senate investigation closed down
the conduit, but the extensive propaganda activities still go on."

Click links to the left to
download scanned PDFs of the original documents. Excerpts of
document content appear to the right.

"During this two-month period,
there was considerable editorial and news comment dealing with
many issues affecting Israel and the Middle East. While
the preponderance of this material concerned itself with
Israel's new nuclear reactor, the following items were dealt
with in more than passing fashion: (1) Arab refugees (the issue
was again before the U.N. General Assembly; (2) The Eichmann
case (some of the opposition forces are still at it); (3)
Israel's aid to the African nations (almost everybody in America
should be aware of this aid by now; and (4) seating of the UAR
in the Security Council (a number of papers attacked it).

"The nuclear reactor story
inspired comment from many sources; editorial writers,
columnists, science writers and cartoonists. Most of the
press seemed finally to accept the thesis that the reactor was
being built for peaceful purposes and not for bombs. Some
columnists felt that the U.S. should have awaited more
information before 'ventilating its suspicions'. Drew
Pearson's syndicated column justified Israel's secrecy; William
Laurence in the New York Times stressed Israel's peaceful
intent, in contrast to Arthur Krock who wanted the reactor
placed under international safeguards. Arab protagonists in this
country—including those in the State Department who raised all
the fuss initially—used the occasion to try to cast doubt on
Israel's friendship toward the U.S."

"The nuclear reactor story
inspired comment from many sources; editorial writers,
columnists, science writers and cartoonists. Most of the
press seemed finally to accept the thesis that the reactor was
being built for peaceful purposes and not for bombs. Some
columnists felt that the U.S. should have awaited more
information before 'ventilating its suspicions'. Drew
Pearson's syndicated column justified Israel's secrecy; William
Laurence in the New York Times stressed Israel's peaceful
intent, in contrast to Arthur Krock who wanted the reactor
placed under international safeguards. Arab protagonists in this
country—including those in the State Department who raised all
the fuss initially—used the occasion to try to cast doubt on
Israel's friendship toward the U.S."

"It can be said that the
press of the nation, during 1960 has by and large shown sympathy
and understanding of Israel's position. There are, of
course, exceptions, notably the Scripps-Howard chain where we
still need to achieve a "break-through", the Pulliam chain
(where some progress has been made) and some locally-owned
papers."

The Magazine
Committee...continues to meet regularly. Writers with whom
we are in contact have readied articles for Reader's Digest and
are discussing another article with the Saturday Evening Post.
(The Reader's Digest 'pulled' a story on Eichmann after type was
set and the author was paid, on the flimsy excuse that Israel's
agreement to pay Servatius now casts some doubts on the article
without going into any further explanations. It was Mrs.
Eichmann's refusal, incidentally, to contribute to her husbands
defense out of the monies she received from Life Magazine that
prompted Servatius to approach the Israel Government)...We
stimulated seven letters to Time because of their treatment of
the review of Exodus."

"We circulated widely our
run-down on Harry Ellis' book Challenge in the Middle East.
(The extent of the distribution of this material, together with
discussions by our New England representative with editors of
the Christian Science Monitor, in our opinion, resulted in the
Monitor's recent failure to publish a number of Ellis'
dispatches from the Middle East. Apparently the editors
did not want to associate Ellis too prominently with the Monitor
during a period of strong adverse reaction in some quarters to
his book.) We continue to urge upon community leaders
presentations of a suitable Israel or Middle East Bookshelf to
local and college libraries...Our office provided books,
bibliographies and pamphlets to academicians, graduate students
and community leaders in response to requests for information."

"During the months of
November and December, there were 260 appearances in 83 cities
and 24 states. This brought the total number of
engagements for this year to 2,124....The the total number of
speaking engagements—the overwhelming number of which were set
up before Christian and general audiences—under the auspices of
the Department came to the sum of 2,661."

"It is not surprising to
note that Dr. Allyn Robinson of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews has gotten some negative responses to his
first-rate article on anti-Semitism which appeared in Social
Action. In that article he stated that 'it is sometimes a
very short step from anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism and many an
Arab and his American friends have taken it.' We helped assemble
the material to make it possible for Robinson to substantiate
his point."

"AZC turned down a request
from the Christian Advocate to debate the Eichmann case
editorially with the Council for Judaism." "The AZC
Commission on Inter-Religious Affairs decided against our
formally replying to Rabbi Philip Sigal's attack in the fall
issue of The Torch, organ of the National Federation of Jewish
Men's Clubs."

"Arab speakers have been
active on many campuses, but in almost all instances they have
been counteracted..."

"Dr. Joseph Schechtman's
article "Contra the Middle East Institute" was published in the
Reconstructionist. We ordered reprints which were sent
primarily to academicians around the country."

"The U.S. contingent of 60
Mayors returned from Israel where they attended the Conference
this year. While in Israel, a number of them were
interviewed by our representative who sent stories back to their
hometown papers; they were also recorded in interviews for local
radio stations. We notified community leaders of those
mayors who attended the conference in Israel' in many cases,
local Zionist leaders have already met with mayors and are
developing plans to place them before Jewish and Christian
audiences, etc.

"We continue to encourage
visits to Israel by public opinion molders and, where possible,
assist with financial arrangements...Recent visitors in whom we
had more than a rooting interest returned from Israel quite
enthusiastic and it is, therefore, hoped that they will be
helpful to us in the future. These include: Harold
Flanders, TV and movie writer, who has joined our Radio-TV
Committee; James Flanagan, Associate editor of the Christian,
(church publication) St. Louis; the Donald Harringtons of the
Community Church in New York....Agnes Mayer, co-owner of the
Washington Post, who has done some excellent writing since her
return; the Ethridges of the Louisville Courier Journal....Our
representative in Israel continues to meet with visiting
Christians and arranges briefings, hospitality, etc..."

"ACJ continues its attempts
to get on TV and Radio, with small success. Our policy
continues to be not to enter into public debates with them; this
stand has caused many producers to drop program ideas initiated
by ACJ...Their speakers on campus have been counteracted
effectively...In Los Angeles, the International Round Table,
which had scheduled both Berger and Sayegh, dropped them after
inquiries in the Jewish community.

ACJ remains, however, a
potent anti-Zionist and anti-Israel force. The AZC is now
discussing a project which, if implemented, should go a long way
in diminishing the acceptance of ACJ in many quarters."

Mrs. Moses P. Epstein,
Chairman of the AZC Department of Information and Public
Relations issues material for Israel's thirteenth anniversary
PR, including draft proclamations for governors and mayors to
declare the week of April 20 "Israel Independence Week".

Bi-Monthly Report - "The
opposition groups took the initiative, as in the past, via
letters to the editor on such subjects as BG's (David
Ben-Gurion) speech on Aliyah, the Eichmann case, Israel's
reactor, the Lavon affair and Israel's 'discrimination' against
its minorities. Among the more prominent letter writers
were Hans Kohn, Edna Ferber, and Hamilton Fish."

"We also took the initiative
in sending the letters to papers throughout the country
attacking Nasser on issues wholly unrelated to the Arab-Israel
controversy."

LIFE Magazine (February 17)
carried a hostile editorial titled: 'The Crisis in Zionism'.
The AZC stimulated several hundred letters to the publication in
disagreement with the editorial; a meeting with one of the
editors has also been held and under consideration is a piece on
Zionism to be prepared by us which they may print..."

"Some communities
(Philadelphia, Miami Beach, San Francisco, and Los Angeles) are
planning to augment our speakers program by establishing local
speakers bureaus. This involves recruitment, training, and
placement of speakers on local platforms."

"Currently, work is
proceeding on preparation of a Unit on Israel (about 100 pages)
for use by Jr. and Sr. High School teachers. The Committee
plans to find and recruit nuclei of friendly academicians in
areas outside of the Greater New York Area."

"A partial scholarship is
being offered to an Israel student to transfer to the Monterey
Peninsula College where propaganda carried on by three Arab
professors has been most hurtful...Mrs. Lasdon of Schenectady
has been instrumental in obtaining the cooperation of Union
College in creating a scholarship for an Israel student there."

"We continue to cultivate
faculty people in many areas and are making progress
here...Efforts are being made by our friends in the San
Francisco area to persuade Stanford to drop Fayez Sayeh from the
faculty on the grounds that he is a paid propagandist rather
than an objective academician...Dr. Zucker at the University of
Utah is at work attempting to obtain endowment of a chair to be
held by a Jew who should be a distinguished Semiticist, and the
prospects seem favorable. This campus is especially
significant as it is staffed with Arab professors and its 50
Arab students are highly active."

"Prof. Arnold Toynbee was
invited to spend about five months in this country...When Toynbee
accusations first broke in the press, we call together the major
non-Zionist groups and evolved a common policy' (1) Discourage
all Jewish Groups for issuing invitations to Toynbee; (2)
Monitor all public appearances and refrain from bringing up the
subject of Israel or the Jews unless Toynbee raises the subject
in his presentation. The two recommendations were carried
out." "We have provided our community contacts with
material they could use should the situation warrant it; this
material has been used effectively in several situations..."

"We continue to try to make
contact with those who have gone to Israel under other auspices
following their return in order to advance our p.r. program."

"The ACJ [American Council
for Judaism] is today the most effective anti-Zionist and
anti-Israel force on the American scene. It continues its
aggressive campaign and is concentrating on the mass media and
in church circles. Its success is due primarily to the
fact that being a Jewish organization (they operate under the
term 'Judaism') it becomes acceptable to those in the
communications field who thrive on controversy and who can now
present 'another Jewish point of view'. Its position also
finds an echo among those Christians—who, either because of some
degree of latent anti-Semitism or because of obligations to the
Arabs—can now join the fray without fear of being called
anti-Semitic; ('I am in good Jewish company')."

"Whatever the reasons, the
ACJ will require much more attention on our part now than in the
past. In this campaign we will need the assistance of the
non-Zionists and especially that of the organized Jewish
religious leadership. It is the task of the AZC to
stimulate, mobilize and direct this effort, and will require the
services of a full-time staff person."

AZC Department of Information
and Public Relations memo addressed to Executive Directors of
Zionist Groups and Select New York Area List

"On Wednesday evening, April
5, at 7:3- PM, WCBS-TV will telecast a one-hour documentary on
'Eichmann and Israel'. Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Dr. Joachim
Prinz and Dr. John Slawson are among the interviewees on the
American scene. It should be noted that these men were
taped for the program without the knowledge that Rabbi Elmer
Berger of the American Council for Judaism would also be on the
program."

"The American Council for
Judaism has taken steps to see to it that WCBS receives hundreds
of letters and phone calls praising Berger's remarks and
thanking the station for inviting him to appear. (The ACJ has
been conducting a campaign for months now to achieve such
recognition in the mass media)."

It would be most helpful if
you could stimulate your membership and friends to send notes to
WCBS or to make hone calls following the telecast indicating
displeasure at their having invited Berger and challenging his
right to appear as a Jewish spokesman in view of the fact that
his organization has been denounced by all three Rabbinic
organizations in Judaism.

AZC organizes tours of Israel
through the American Christian Palestine Committee Study Tour.
"We, therefore, turn to you once again to help in the selection
of a suitable man or woman of some stature in your community who
can upon his return help interpret Israel to the general
community. An educator, religious leader, editor, or civic
leader who is generally sympathetic to the aims of Israel, but
one in need of greater knowledge of Middle East problems, would
make the ideal tour participant."

"The AZC was formerly financed by the Jewish
Agency for Israel, but this financial support was to cease at
March 31, 1961. The source of this Jewish Agency support
of the AZC was the UJA which is finance by Welfare Funds.
The AZC is seeking direct support from Welfare Funds since the
reorganization of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc. in 1960
resulted in the separation of AZC activities from the basic
program of immigrant aid which will continue to be financed by
the Jewish Agency for Israel. This separation was in line
with the principal that decisions and support of domestic
activities should be made by the American Jewish community
rather than by an international agency."

Mrs. Moses P. Epstein,
Chairman of the AZC Department of Information and Public
Relations issues guidance on the Adolf Eichmann trial. "It
became necessary almost from the start, therefore, to conduct an
educational campaign on the Eichmann issue to reach molders of
public opinion throughout the country, stressing the moral
issues involved..." "Please continue to monitor the press
in your area, including the church press, for comments on the
Eichmann trial. ."

Bi-monthly Report --Department
of Information and Public Relations. "Very little comment
appeared editorially on the Israeli Arabs who were shot in
crossing the border into Egypt...There was a slight lessening of
hostile letters to the editor." "Israel fared extremely
well during this period, with five or six major articles in the
top publications: Atlantic Monthly, Reader's Digest, Look,
Holiday, Saturday Review...Our Magazine Committee continues to
be active in the planning and placement of articles..."

"The Atlantic Monthly in
its October issue carried the outstanding Martha Gellhorn piece
on the Arab refugees, which made quite an impact around the
country. We arranged for the distribution of 10,000
reprints to public opinion molders in all categories.
Acting on information that anti-Israel groups were bombarding
the Atlantic with critical letters, we stimulated a letter
campaign designed to counteract their impact...Interested
friends are making arrangements with the Atlantic for another
reprint of the Gellhorn article to be sent to all 53,000 persons
whose names appear in Who's Who in America...The November issue
of the Atlantic carried a special 64-page Supplement on Israel,
with articles by some of Israel's top names. Our Boston office
edited the Yadin article..." "Jack Anderson, following his
return from Israel, is now doing a piece for Parade
Publications...We wrote the piece on Zionism for the Spencer
Press Encyclopedia...Our Committee is now planning articles for
the women's magazines for the trade and business
publications...Meyer Levin's piece on Buber will appear in the
New York Times Magazine any day now..."

"Two network shows were
arranged...We counteracted Don Peretz' interviews on several
programs with our own people who either appeared simultaneously
or at a subsequent date."

"AZC continues to
counteract all hostile speeches on campuses by placing
appropriate speakers on the same platforms."
"Representations by the Boston office resulted in the
cancellation of an inflammatory Arab film which dealt with the
refugees."

"Kenneth Wilson did a
splendid piece for the Christian Herald upon his return [from
Israel]..The same applies to William Henry Chamberlin who two
articles have already appeared in the Wall Street Journal and
one in the New Leader..Earl Ubell continues to write and plan
articles on Israel (he is now writing one for the Saturday
Evening Post).

"We continue to counteract
the Arab speakers wherever they appear, by placing our own
speakers on the same platforms..."

"Mailings have gone out to
public opinion molders dealing with current issues.."

AZC Department of Information
and Public Relations memo addressed to Local Zionist Council
Chairmen. "The current issue of The Atlantic, now on the
newsstands, features a 20-page article on 'The Arabs of
Palestine" which is one of the best articles on the subject yet
to be written. This piece, coming from the pen of Martha
Gellhorn, celebrated journalist, novelist and war correspondent,
assumes added significance in view of the discussion of this
issue which will take place at this session of the U.S. General
Assembly."

We
urge you to get a copy for your own reading and also that you
bring it to the attention of key individuals in your community.
We have arranged for reprints which will not be available until
late October (the publishers frown on their appearance while the
current issue is on the stands) which you can then send on to a
larger list of public opinion molders in your area. (The charge
for the reprint will be ten cents per copy.)

Meanwhile, would you also
drop a note to the editors (8 Arlington Street, Boston,
Massachusetts) indicating, among other comments you may care to
make, your gratification at their having printed such an
illuminating article. Undoubtedly, the 'opposition' is
stimulating a heavy letter campaign and it would be helpful if
the editors also received a substantial number of letters of
commendation."

Bi-Monthly Report - 'Hundreds
of editorials appeared in the press commenting on the Eichmann
verdict; about 6% of those were highly critical of Israel (in
such major papers as the Cincinnati Enquirer, Tulsa Tribune,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Salt Lake City Tribune, and Norfolk
Ledger-Dispatch)...40% of the press...opposed the death
sentence, 20% suggested the trial should have been held by an
international tribunal. Almost all papers, however, agreed
that Eichmann received a fair trial..."

"There was considerably less
comment on the Arab refugee debate in the U.N. Papers
which did comment were generally critical of the Arab
determination to use the issue for political purposes;
editorials generally favored resettlement in the Arab
countries..."

"Perhaps the most effective
letter was written by a former refugee, now resident in the
United States, whose letter appeared in the Christian Science
Monitor of November 26. In it he states that the Arabs
were threatened y the Arab Higher Committee and the Mufti should
they refuse to leave the country and that 'we were driven from
our home, not by our Jewish neighbors who offered us peace, but
by the short-sighted fanatics of our own people.' This
letter has been widely circulated and another offset is planned
for even wider distribution."

"US News and World Report
took a searching look at Nasser's future and found it rather
bleak. The Atlantic said the UAR breakup was a most
serious setback for Nasser. It also carried seven letters
commenting on the (excellent) Gellhorn piece on the Arab
refugees; four of these in praise (which we stimulated) and
three critical...Atlantic will carry another Gellhorn piece...We
continue to give distribution to the Gelhorn reprint and some
local Zionist Councils are doing the same...A study by Dr.
Joseph Schechtman, 'Minorities in the Muslim World' has been
accepted for publication by India Quarterly, organ of the Indian
Council for Foreign Affairs, in New Delhi. It is scheduled
to appear in the forthcoming issue. We ordered a number of
reprints for distribution."

"Perfidy, the Ben Hecht
[book] indictment of Israel's leaders, has been damaging; Hecht
himself worked hard in the promotional effort and made a number
of radio and TV appearances. Some reviewers tried hard not
to offend either Israel or Hecht, and thus left the reader
somewhat confused. Several attempts to do a Fact Sheet on
the book were inconclusive due to the nature of the charges and
lack of available factual material with which to positively
refute those charges...The publishers claim a sale of 35,000
copies of the book."

"Don Kellerman, producer of
the CBS ACCENT Program, will be leaving for Israel to look into
some program possibilities. Two NBC people will also be
making the trip early in 1962 for similar purposes."

"Fayez Sayegh, noted Arab
propagandist, is leaving Stanford to take up a one-year
residence professorship in September at Macalester College in
St. Paul. He was appointed to fill a Chair of
International Studies endowed by DeWitt Wallace of the Readers
Digest, (who will be giving Macalester $3 million during the
next few years.)...We have alerted our friends in the area to
Sayegh's propaganda activities while at Stanford. There is
much concern in the Jewish community and approaches are being
made to President Rice of Macalester. Rice is being
acquainted not only with Sayegh's record; the public relations
implications of Sayegh's off-campus activities will also be
brought to his attention..."

"The Department now
monitors the publications containing information and comment on
international affairs which go into the elementary, junior and
senior high schools..." "Our representative in Israel
continues to arrange meetings, receptions and interview for
visiting VIP Americans..."

"Hadawi's allegations that
newspapers in the East are under Zionist pressure, carried in
the Lubbock Avalanche, elicited a rejoinder from its editor...We
continue to counteract Arab speakers on all platforms with
pro-Israel speakers; thus, Hadawi was followed up by Matityahu
Dagan and Shlomo Efrat, Hassan by Hedzini, etc...The Birmingham
Zionist leadership has been effectively counteracting the Arabs
in that area..."

"Its [American Friends of
the Middle East] new publication...carried a stinging
condemnation of the Gellhorn article on the refugees, adding;
'We cannot repeat often enough that Zionist-inspired controls,
propaganda and pressures, of which the article in question is
merely one of a long series, seriously prejudice the American
position in the Middle East and greatly increase the
probabilities of renewed warfare...'"

AZC Area Southern Office
reports activities between September 1, 1961 through May 31,
1962. "The Southern Area Office of AZC has also cooperated
with Consulates of Israel in Atlanta, Georgia and Dallas, Texas
in setting up speaking engagements for the Consuls and
Vice-Consuls before non-Jewish groups in a number of
communities. These are: Asheville, Mobile, New Orleans,
Baton Rouge, Little Rock, Lubbock, Montgomery."

Under
the heading "Anti-Israel Propaganda" the report states "For
obvious reasons our activities in this area cannot be minutely
described, nor can we give names, dates, or places. We
are, however, fighting hostile propagandists as one of our major
activities throughout the year by: a. a careful check of
newspapers, bulletins and confidential sources of our own, who
can give us reliable information on the movements or itineraries
of these propagandists. b. alerting our community contacts...c.
requesting that all known meetings be monitored....furnishing
speakers and arranging for them to address the forums..."

"For
the observance of Israel's 14th anniversary, we offered to our
local councils and key community leaders the following....A play
"A Message from Dimona", written by Marc Siegel especially for
the American Zionist Council for presentation by dramatic
groups, community centers and others celebrating the
anniversary." (Described as a "story of a new city in the
Israeli desert" in the
New York Times radio broadcast schedule)

AZC
Department of Information report to the AZC Executive Committee.
"part of the work of the original Council had now been taken
over by the Kenen Committee which was charged with political
action ..greater emphasis is now put on a more subtle approach,
which, through positive presentation of Israel's
accomplishments, aims and purpose—and by counter-attack of the
many enemies of Israel and the Zionist movement—helps create a
favorable image of Israel and the Zionist movement."

"The
office staff monitors daily press...When hostile attacks on
Israel or the Zionist movement appear anywhere, material is
prepared and sent, either directly to the editor or from the
office as draft material to our friends and groups throughout
the country who might have better access to a particular
publication involved..." "In one recent week, for example,
we were forced to research and prepare communications in reply
to three extremely inimical articles appearing in the Columbia
University (Quarterly) Forum, Cosmopolitan Magazine, and Editor
and Publisher..."

"The
Research Bureau also analyzes books and articles which deal with
Israel or the Middle East. When a book is favorable, it is
recommended. When it is unfavorable, it is analyzed and
distortions are pointed up by providing the factual data
required, so that our local Councils will be prepared to
react....We also stimulate book presentations to libraries, both
community and university libraries..."

"Magazine Committee.....We cannot pinpoint all that has already
been accomplished by this Committee except to say that it has
been responsible for the writing and placement of articles on
Israel in some of America's leading magazines...."

"TV-Radio Committee....The Committee arranges for talks and
interviews on radio and TV; submits ideas for possible programs
to stations and networks so as to give a better and more
sympathetic understanding of Israel to the viewing American
public..."

"Public Relations Advisory Council....last week 15 of the
outstanding public relations men of this city sat around this
table to consider how they could be of help in presenting a
positive picture of Israel in the U.S."

The
Role of Communities....One word about our effort to transplant
this work at the grass roots level, without which its final
impact is lost...we are only at the beginning of development in
this field...we have learned we can attract into our fold men
and women who have no present Zionist affiliation, no definite
understanding of what Zionism is—but who have an excited
interest in Israel and a willingness to help....If we know how
to exploit this willingness to become a more integral part of
the Jewish people, we can begin to meet our Zionist
responsibility..."

AZC president Jerome Unger
memo centralizes all public relations activities.
"Beginning immediately and extending through April 30, 1963 we
have engaged Mr.
Ernest Barbarash to conduct the 'internal
public relations' activities of the AZC...You may submit your
material and requests directly to Mr. Barbarash or channel them
through my office, as you desire...it is rare that we are
concerned with this kind of need suddenly..."

"We know that community
leaders, as well as Christian public opinion molders, who are
actively engaged in the creation of a better understanding of
Israel and the Middle East have found the Near East Report an
important and vital source of information....Unfortunately, we
must now inform you that the Council is no longer in a position
to continue this service..."